Pull live data into published artifacts through MCP connectors, and use Claude Code with a screen reader in the new screen reader mode.
A published artifact can now call MCP connectors each time someone views it, so a dashboard shows live data and can take actions on demand rather than a snapshot from the session that built it. Each call runs through the viewing account's own connections, and viewers approve access before the page's first connector call. This week also adds public sharing links, editor roles for shared editing on Team and Enterprise plans, and artifacts created from Claude Tag sessions.
Name the connector and the data you want in your prompt:
Build a dashboard artifact of open pull requests that pulls the live list through my GitHub connector when the page loads.
Screen reader mode replaces the visual terminal interface with plain, linear text: instead of boxes, spinners, and in-place redraws, Claude Code prints labeled lines that a screen reader such as VoiceOver or NVDA reads in order, so you can approve permissions and review output end to end. Turn it on per session with a flag, per shell with the CLAUDE\_AX\_SCREEN\_READER environment variable, or everywhere with the axScreenReader setting.
Start a session in screen reader mode:
claude --ax-screen-reader
Other wins
/fork now copies your conversation into a new background session with its own row in claude agents while you keep working; the in-session forked subagent it used to launch is now /subtaskCLAUDE\_CODE\_ENABLE\_AUTO\_MODE opt-in on Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud's Agent Platform, and Microsoft Foundry; administrators can turn it off with disableAutoModeCLAUDE\_CODE\_MCP\_AUTO\_BACKGROUND\_MSclaude auto-mode reset restores the default auto-mode configuration, and `--yes` skips the confirmation promptCLAUDE\_CODE\_PROCESS\_WRAPPER or the processWrapper setting runs the processes Claude Code starts from its own binary, such as the background service and agent view sessions, through a required wrapper executablevimInsertModeRemaps setting maps two-key insert-mode sequences such as jj to Escape in vim modeCLAUDE\_CODE\_FORWARD\_SUBAGENT\_TEXT include subagent text and thinking blocks in stream-json outputCLAUDE\_CODE\_MAX\_WEB\_SEARCHES\_PER\_SESSION and CLAUDE\_CODE\_MAX\_SUBAGENTS\_PER\_SESSION